Bread or candy dividing machine.



nu. 680,05l.

Patented Aug. 6, i901. C. LUETEKE.

BREAD on CANDY DIVIDING MACHINE.

(Application led Jnn. 15, 1901.)

(No Model.)

/N VE N TOI? M QM/mm A TTOHNEY Wl TNE SSE S UNITED STATES i PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES LUETEKE, o F GREENCASTLE, INDTANA.

BREAD OR CANDYDIVIDING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 680,051, dated August 6, 1901.

Application filed January 15, 1901. Serial No. 43,316. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern! Be it known that I, CHARLES LUETEKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Greencastle, in the county of Putnam and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bread or Candy Dividing Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in machines for rolling bread, cake, and candy dough into thin sheets and cutting said sheets into strips and cakes, the obj ect being to provide a machine with adjustable mechanism whereby variations in the thickness of the sheets may be obtained and whereby the dimensions of the divided parts can be regulated.

The invention is applicable to the forming of all sizes of bread, rolls, biscuit, crackers, cakes, pretzels, caramels, cocoanut sticks, cream bar, horehound sticks, and other candy, and to other purposes where a doughy or plas- .tic material is to be divided.

I accomplish the object of the invention by the mechanism illustrated in the accom panying drawings, in whichl Figure l is a plan view of my invention; Fig. 2, a vertical section on the dotted line 2 2 of Fig. l; Fig. 3, a detail in vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 of the part between the arrows at ends of said dotted line; Fig. 4, a detail in side elevation ofthe right side of the front end of the machine; Fig. 5, a like detail of the opposite or left side of the front end of the machine; and Fig. 6, a detail in vertical section of the reciprocating cutter, showing decker attached thereto.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views of the drawings.

A represents the frame or body of the machine, having `a slide a at its front end, in-v top roll can be placed at a greater or less dis- *spur-gear?)3 on the shaft b.

tance from the bottom one and the thickness A of the sheet of dough rolled out between them regulated. In approximately the same horizontal plane, but at the opposite end of the machine, is the roller D, having a shaft mounted in boxes, which are adjustable by means of the screws d, whereby the distance between the rolls B and D can be changed. Passing around the rolls B and D is the endless belt or apron E. This apron runs over l,

the top of the table F, and as it makes the turn around the front roll B it is brought in contact with a mass of flour d, contained between the incline a and the incline d'. The

sheet of dough as it comes from between the to travel by the rotation of the rollers around which it passes in the manner which will be presently described. Connected with the ineline d is the pan d3 to catch the droppings of Hour from the inverted apron and save it clean for further use. by adjusting the roller D.

G is the main driving-shaft of the machine. It has the spur-gear g, which meshes with the It also has on The apronl is kept taut the same end the pulley g2, which is driven by belt connection with any suitable source ot' power, or, if preferred, the shaft may be provided with a crank and turned by hand. The opposite end of shaft G from gear g has the sprocket-wheel g3, which connects by chain belt g4 with sprocket-wheel c2 on the adjacent end of the shaft c. By this means the upper and lower rollers are positively driven, and the rotation of the roller B causes the belt or apron to be correspondingly moved.

Mounted on the shaft G are the circular cutters h, which latter are adjustable on the shaft, whereby the distance between them may be varied, according to the thickness or width of the strips of dough required to be cut, it being the purpose of the cutters to enter the sheet of dough as the latter passes on the apron or belt under them and cut it longitudinally into strips. It now remains to cut the strips transversely into cakes, and this is accomplished by means of the vertically-reciprocating knife H, which works in IOO knife in an elevated position.

suitabley guides in the frame of themachine and has the central standard h,rwith stop h',

Y against which a semi-elliptic spring h2 bears.

The spring is slotted to allow the standard to pass through it. The downwardly-extended ends enter a slot in the top of a cross-bar H3. The action of the spring tends to hold the The lowering of the knife to make the cut is accomplished inthe following manner: Located adjacent to the standard h is the wheel I, having double flanges which form a central groove into which the upper end of the standard enters, and supported by the flanges are the crossbolts t', which when the wheel I is rotated contact with the top ofthe standard and lower same, causing it to lower the attached knife and cut the strips of dough. .To make the friction between the bolts and standard less, I prefer to surround the bolts with the rollers 112. (Shown in Fig. 2.) A number of boltholes are provided through the anges, as shown in the drawings, whereby the positions of the bolts may be varied, thereby varying the distances between the cuts in the dough. If a greater number of strokes of the knife is desired at each revolution of the Wheel I, more bolts will be used and the spaces made equal between them, or if a less number of strokes is desired some of the bolts now shown in the drawings will be removed and the spaces made equal, although if it is desired to make some'wide and some narrower cakes the result may be accomplished by varying the spaces between the bolts.

The wheel I is driven by belting the sprocket-wheelj on the end of its shaft with the sprocket-wheel k on the shaft Z. The shaft Z is connected by spur-gear m with the spur-gear gon shaft Gr.

The knife H has the longitudinal slot H3 to receive the laterally-adjustable holders N, with central perforation to receive the rods or docker-holderN. These rods are adjustable longitudinally in the holders and are held by set-screws '11,. The shanks of holders N are threaded to receive the threaded nuts n', whereby the holders are bolted to the knife H. The rods are connected with the crossbar p, which carries the pins fr' to puncture the dough.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a machine for molding and dividing bread, cakes, candy, dac., the combination of a table, a pair of feed-rollers located at one A end of the table, the lower roller having its upper surface about flush with the top of the table, a rotary cutter located above the table in the rear of the feed-rollers for cutting the dough into strips longitudinally, an endless carrier passing between the feed-rollers and between thefrotary cutter and the table, a

vertically-reciprocating knife transverse to the table and` held normally away from the table by a spring said knife having a standard and a rotatingwheel with strikes to contact with the standard and depress the knife, substantially as described and shown.

2. A table, an endlesscarrier passing over the table, a rotary cutter located above the table in close relation to cut such material as may be carried past it by the endless carrier, and a knife transverse to the table and carrier having reciprocating movement to andl from the table, said knife being pressed normally.away from the table by a spring, a standard connected with the knife and a wheel rotating in close proximity to the standard and having strikes to contact with the standard and depress it and the knife, substantially as described and shown.

3. A table, a rotary cutter located above the table in close relation thereto, an endless carrier passing over the table between it and the a spring, said knife having a standard, and roo a wheel rotating adjacent to the standard and having a double flange forming a groove into' which the end of the standard` takes, said flanges having a series of perforations to receive bolts to'form strikes to depress the 1o5 standard and knife, bolts removably secured in some or all of said perforations, all substantially as described and shown.

5. A table, a rotary cutter above the table in close 'relation thereto, an endless carrier 11o passing over the table between it and the rotary cutter, a vertically-reciprocating knife transverse to the table pressed upwardly by a spring, said knife having a standard, and

a wheel rotating adjacent to the standard and I 15 having a plurality of strikes adjustable with relation to their distances from each other, said strikes being adapted to contact with the standard and depress it and the knife and dockers secured to and moving with the knife, 12o

substantially as described and shown.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Greencastle, Indiana, this 22d day of December, A. D. 1900.

CHARLESl LUET'EKE. [L. s]

Witnesses: j f

B. F. CORWIN, ROSE A. GAINER. 

